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Subject[PATCH v2 2/2] sysfs: provide more diagnostic info for kobject_add_internal() failures
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1/ convert open-coded KERN_ERR+dump_stack() to WARN(), so that automated
tools pick up this warning.

2/ include the 'child' and 'parent' kobject names. This information was
useful for tracking down the case where scsi invoked device_del() on a
parent object and subsequently invoked device_add() on a child. Now the
warning looks like:

kobject_add_internal failed for target8:0:16 (error: -2 parent: end_device-8:0:24)
Pid: 2942, comm: scsi_scan_8 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc7-isci+ #2
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8125e551>] kobject_add_internal+0x1c1/0x1f3
[<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[<ffffffff8125e659>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50
[<ffffffff8125e723>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66
[<ffffffff8131124b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a
[<ffffffff8125e0ef>] ? kobject_put+0x4c/0x50
[<ffffffff8132f370>] scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x4e/0x28a
[<ffffffff8132dce3>] do_scan_async+0x9c/0x145

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
lib/kobject.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index c33d7a1..1bd0893 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -192,14 +192,14 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj)

/* be noisy on error issues */
if (error == -EEXIST)
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s with "
- "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with "
- "the same name in the same directory.\n",
- __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
+ WARN(1, "%s failed for %s with "
+ "-EEXIST, don't try to register things with "
+ "the same name in the same directory.\n",
+ __func__, kobject_name(kobj));
else
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s failed for %s (%d)\n",
- __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error);
- dump_stack();
+ WARN(1, "%s failed for %s (error: %d parent: %s)\n",
+ __func__, kobject_name(kobj), error,
+ parent ? kobject_name(parent) : "'none'");
} else
kobj->state_in_sysfs = 1;



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